There May Be a Reason Why...

One of my all time favorite poems!  I'd read the piece before but I fell in love with it when my good friend used it in her talent while competing in the Miss Black & Gold pageant our freshman year at University of Miami.  I even used it in my own talent when I competed in the Miss Black & Gold pageant at University of Houston after I transferred.  Thanks Tierra! ;)   Some people love it, some hate it, but it just SCREAMS power to me...and you knooow I had to emphasize my favorite part.



Enjoy...Ambitious Girls. =)

Ego Trippin

Nikki Giovanni



I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and built
the sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
that only glows every one hundred years falls
into the center giving divine perfect light
I am bad

I sat on the throne
drinking nectar with allah
I got hot and sent an ice age to europe
to cool my thirst
My oldest daughter is nefertiti
the tears from my birth pains
created the nile
I am a beautiful woman

I gazed on the forest and burned
out the sahara desert
with a packet of goat's meat
and a change of clothes
I crossed it in two hours
I am a gazelle so swift
so swift you can't catch me

For a birthday present when he was three
I gave my son hannibal an elephant
He gave me rome for mother's day
My strength flows ever on

My son noah built new/ark and
I stood proudly at the helm
as we sailed on a soft summer day
I turned myself into myself and was
jesus
men intone my loving name
All praises All praises
I am the one who would save

I sowed diamonds in my back yard
My bowels deliver uranium
the filings from my fingernails are
semi-precious jewels
On a trip north
I caught a cold and blew
My nose giving oil to the arab world
I am so hip even my errors are correct
I sailed west to reach east and had to round off
the earth as I went
The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid
across three continents

I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended except by my permission

I mean...I...can fly
like a bird in the sky...

P.S. be patient with me on the features, I've got a GOOD one coming ASAP! ;)